Deck 12: Analyzing Data

Question 1

Contingency analysis means ______.

A) in quantitative content analysis, that you look for various concepts that appear in newspaper texts at the same time
B) that you analyse the meaning of concepts
C) just another term for quantitative content analysis
D) just another term for qualitative content analysis

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Measures of central tendencies:

A) arithmetic means can be used for interval scale data
B) arithmetic means can be used for nominal scale data
C) the mode that can be used for nominal scale data
D) dispersion

Answer 2

A , C

Question 3

Transcription in interview studies should ______.

A) follow rules that are applied to all interviews
B) should be adequate in their precision to the analysis that is planned
C) provide summaries of interviews
D) be done differently for every participant

Answer 3

A , B

Question 4

Techniques of qualitative content analysis include ______.

A) summarizing content analysis to reduce the original material
B) the use of paraphrases
C) explicative content analysis clarifying meanings of statements
D) interpretative content analysis

Question 5

What characterises grounded theory coding?

A) open, axial and selective coding
B) asking questions to the material, such as 'what', 'how', 'when' etc.
C) using the paradigm model
D) all of these

Question 6

Steps of thematic analysis:

A) familiarizing yourself with your data
B) counting the themes addressed by the interviewee
C) searching and reviewing themes
D) working with semantic and underlying codes

Question 7

Narrative analysis includes ______.

A) analysis of biographical data
B) reconstruction of the case history
C) criticizing the interviewees' stories
D) distinguishing narrative and other formats of presenting in the interviewees' accounts

Question 8

Discourse analysis includes ______.

A) coding and analysing texts with guiding questions
B) looking at features of the text producing a specific meaning
C) looking for variability and constructions in the text
D) asking participants for consenting the analysis

Question 9

Data analysis in mixed methods and triangulation can include ______.

A) a separate analysis of the qualitative and quantitative data
B) identifying common themes in the different data sets
C) deciding which is the right set of data
D) using software packages